--- title: What Kyle understood: when someone suddenly turns mean, it is often… — Reading people in hard times: what's really behi… · tree and pragmatics description: What Kyle understood: when someone suddenly turns mean, it is often because of something hard happening to them that we cannot see; the snapping was not really about Kyle; it does not make it okay, but understanding it changes what you do next. Who acts: Kyle, someone, we, snapping. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kyle, someone, we, snapping), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:028-reading-people-in-hard-times-whats-really-behind-the-mean-face.lesson:3 # text = What Kyle understood: when someone suddenly turns mean, it is often because of something hard happening to them that we cannot see; the snapping was not really about Kyle; it does not make it okay, but understanding it changes what you do next. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 028-reading-people-in-hard-times-whats-really-behind-the-mean-face.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 obj _ _ 2 Kyle Kyle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 understood understand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 5 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 6 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 8 nsubj _ _ 7 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 mean meantime ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 often often ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 8 advcl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 14 fixed _ _ 16 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 14 obj _ _ 17 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 18 happening happen VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 acl _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 snapping snapping NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 really really ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 32 about about ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Kyle Kyle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 36 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 38 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 okay okay ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 42 but but CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 43 understanding understanding VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 45 nsubj _ _ 44 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ _ 45 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ _ 46 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 48 obj _ _ 47 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 48 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 obj _ _ 49 next next ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **understand** | past | Kyle | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | | 2 | **turn** | present | someone | | | | | meantime, suddenly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **happen** | gerund | | | questions *= question* | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **see** | can | we | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **not** **is** | past · do-support | the snapping | | | | | make, okay *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **understanding** | gerund | | muppet | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **change** | present | | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **do** | present | you | | | | | next *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:reflection:028-reading-people-in-hard-times-whats-really-behind-the-mean-face.lesson:3`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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